[DannyCox]

We're still only an hour drive from the old neighbourhood. The two older kids are still living in Montreal and Carol didn't want to move too far away. Our youngest was starting high school, and we didn't want his education ruined as it was for the two older ones! We were talking about selling and moving for a few years now, and this past summer was the perfect time.

I needed to get away from sitting in front of the computer for a while, and playing "handyman" is kinda my hobby. So we gutted and rebuilt the place, making a much larger master bedroom with a larger en-suite bathroom. We also made another large bedroom with it's own en-suite for my father (who just moved in with us) as well as two other bedrooms and 2 more bathrooms. I put in all new oak hardwood on the floors as well as tiling the bathroom floors. I just finished renovating the basement and JUST moved in my new office (with a nice gas fireplace). All that is left is to gut the kitchen and rebuild it. Well, new landscaping in the Spring too.

If I have to sell the place, I'll never get the money I put into it back out. We did go a bit overboard with all high end materials, cabinetry and fixtures. But I'm not looking at flipping but staying here as a retirement home. It's a good home base for when I finally take off in my sailboat in 5 or 6 years.